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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:32 am    Post subject: HST Repair Mission Reply with quote

Okay, so I'm a space geek and have been religiously watching NASA TV (except for last night when the season finale of LOST was on, but I digress) and it's really interesting to see video of the HST after being up there for 19 years and a couple of repair missions. Some of it looks like a few of my home repair/science projects, parts seemingly pieced together hastily, some wires not "tied" together, a few missing screws. Next time someone critiques my not-so-pretty, but functional projects, I'm going to reply, "If it's good enough for the Hubble Space Telescope, it's good enough for me!" Razz

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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 7:59 am    Post subject: Re: HST Repair Mission Reply with quote

shoob wrote:
except for last night when the season finale of LOST was on, but I digress


Call yourself a proper space geek!!! I'm sure they were all FOUND again (and maybe got LOST once more just to eak out another series) - wouldn't know though, never watched it, never likely to either.

shoob wrote:

Some of it looks like a few of my home repair/science projects, parts seemingly pieced together hastily, some wires not "tied" together, a few missing screws.


I thought it was rather amusing on a previous repair mission when they upgraded the CPU's to i386's - now that's real power.

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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anybody at NASA ever fess up to the FIRST Hubble 'Repair Job'?

The 'Replacement Lens' issue?

What was REALLY going on was apparently bad bolts,
marked as Hard-type, but Sub-Standard!!

Or so I gleaned... from a friend of a pal with a buddy who
said his Chum heard it!

Enquiring Minds Want To KNOW!

(By saying this, I wonder if I'm now on some CIA HitList...)
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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PhastPhred wrote:
(By saying this, I wonder if I'm now on some CIA HitList...)


Just claim to have found Oil and all would be forgiven.

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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 4:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

KWSN imcrazynow wrote:
PhastPhred wrote:

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Ahhhhhhhh!!!!! That's just so cute...



...I love window ledges

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